I’ve been really appreciating the work Jonathan Katz and John Ganz have done tracking fascist-adjacent nerdery. 🙂
One thing I’m having trouble figuring out. There seems to be a lot of evidence that the rationalist right is heavily astroturfed - if you remove the billionaire funding I’m not sure you still have a neoreactionary movement. On the other side, this stuff has a genuine base in nerd/tech culture. There are oodles of frustrated geeky white boys out there who read someone like Hanania and feel he’s expressed their deepest feelings, I don’t think money alone can make that happen.
May I ask what your preferred solution is?
In other words, either (1) what specific policies would you recommend to patch the gaps in liberalism’s armour, or (2) with what specific less exploitable alternative would you replace liberalism?